Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Sensitivity: Subject: Re: init and xinetd woes To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Message-ID: From: Brian DOT Kelly AT Empireblue DOT com Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2003 07:31:42 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-WSS-ID: 135A72E2161067-01-03 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > hello all, > I've been messing around with xinetd and init and I can't seem to get them > to play nicely together. > I've checked the archives and have reinstalled xinetd, sysvinit, > initscripts, etc., run the appropriate config files (overwriting existing > /etc/*config files) and I still can't get init to start xinetd. > /var/log/init.log is empty > net start init produces the following output: > INIT: version 2.84 booting > INIT: Entering runlevel: 3 > INIT: no more processes left in this runlevel init is HYPER sensitive to the owner and group settings on the /var directory. To *just* get it working, try this: chown -R SYSTEM:None /var Better security can be had with this depending on the group membership of the SYSTEM user: chown -R SYSTEM:Administrators /var Or - if you've created a custom user, like "root": chown -R root:Administrators /var Make sure that the *user* init is configured to use has write permissions: chmod -R 755 /var If you want the group to have write permissions as well: chmod -R 775 /var Also, consult the archives for previous discussions (like this one) http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2003-08/msg00440.html Enjoy, Brian Kelly (Oh - and yes - the error messages *SUCK* - obviously created for the developers use and *not* end-users. A big PET PEEVE of mine - the developer's ultimate revenge against the dreaded demanding and *ungrateful* user. Actually, it's a sin of "omission" - but a sin nevertheless. Of course they'll all cry overworked, underpaid (or not paid as the case certainly is here - unless you work for Red Hat), "don't like it - do it yourself", *&%$ YOU!: http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2003-08/msg00454.html etc etc. But alas - it is what it is ... I've always found the notion that "complaints" == "ungrateful" and that I or anyone else should "thankfully" accept whatever is created - even if takes 10 wasted hours from our lives that could have been prevented with ten or fifteen minutes worth of effort by the developer - *without complaint* to be a bunch of HOOEY! Add up your ten hours, my ten hours, and the ten hours of all those before and after and this *sin of omission* becomes quite glaring) "WellChoice, Inc." made the following annotations on 08/21/2003 07:30:48 AM ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Attention! This electronic message contains information that may be legally confidential and/or privileged. The information is intended solely for the individual or entity named above and access by anyone else is unauthorized. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution, or use of the contents of this information is prohibited and may be unlawful. If you have received this electronic transmission in error, please reply immediately to the sender that you have received the message in error, and delete it. Release/Disclosure Statement -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/